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To amuse: Dunno if things have changed here(UK) but a cheque can be (or could be) anything. It's just a bit of paper with some details on it. In fact, I'm not s
by alan_cx 14y ago
To amuse: Dunno if things have changed here(UK) but a cheque can be (or could be) anything. It's just a bit of paper with some details on it. In fact, I'm not sure there is a requirement for it to actually be on paper. Legend has it some students in the UK banked a cow (yes a large moo moo thing) because it had the right details on it.
Anyway, if this fake cheque had all the right details on it, or enough to make the transaction, how is it fake? Or how could it clear if the details were wrong? Surely US banks clear the cheque before crediting the account with the money?
- nicholassmith 14y agoThe internet comes to the information rescue: http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-20434,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2043... It was close enough to being a real cheque aside from 'non-negotiable' and a whole host of other things on it to make it invalid, except the law prevented those things from mattering which turned it into a real cheque. Seems a bit fishy, but if the law says that it was a valid cheque, and it's been paid there's very little they can do except sue, which of course is how any big boy wins a fight these days.
- staticshock 14y agoLegend has it some students in the UK banked a cow Not according to snopes: http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/cowcheck.asp http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/cowcheck.asp